Letters to the editor: Feb. 21

A letter to the editor which is critical of deer farming states that the wild deer population in Indiana is for all Hoosiers to enjoy.

I wonder if any of the hundreds of victims of deer-related vehicle crashes (Hoosiers or otherwise) enjoyed that experience.

Fred Feigel

Lafayette

Our troops deserve better than this battle plan

A Feb. 20 headline read, “Key Iraqi battle to free Mosul planned for spring.” Just how dumb can our government and military be?

I wonder if we are going to send our battle plans to the enemy ahead of time so they can be prepared for us. How can we ever expect to win a war when we let enemy know what we are going to do? Either we fight to win this war or get out.

Our troops deserve better than this.

Max Morehouse

Lafayette

Americans should be innovating not mass producing

As an American, I am getting really offended by the people who are satisfied with the mass production of the same old cheap ideas.

America shouldn’t be a country that does mass production of the cheap. We are, were a country that innovates. Everything from airplanes to our own form of government was invited here.

It’s the countries like China and Japan that keep mass producing the stuff that we invent. That is what China seems to be for, mass production. When China has figured out how to mass produce our governmental ideas and make a joke out of them, it is time to think of a better way.

It is really hard to innovate a better way without a new idea and even harder to innovate a new idea while holding on tight to the old ideals. It seems to me that something is wrong with this country, and as a true Americans, it’s time we innovate some new ideas so we can run this great country of ours the way it should be. Better!

So I say to those who are satisfied with mass production of the same cheap ideas that got us in the mess that we are in now, and to those who are stuck on the same ideals from antiquity, you move. And please take your old ways with you, so us true Americans can innovate something better than what you obviously want.

Bo Mayfield

Lafayette

Union-backed teacher groups on wrong side of education

What a pathetic and tragic recent letter to the Journal & Courier signed by many local Indiana State Teacher Association groups. The fight is over whether the National Education Association or the parents of Indiana children control our school agenda.

A few years ago, at an NEA annual meeting, the president of the NEA stated that when the students start paying dues, then they’d start looking out for the students. That one sentence is all you need to know about the NEA.

The NEA was taken over by the leftists in the 1950s, and over the years the organization has been radicalized from the top down. At the annual convention, they usually vote on 50 or so resolutions, and most of us would find their radical positions out of the mainstream, and on most issues one’s vote would be no instead of yes.

You have to feel sorry for most of our smart, hardworking, loyal, faithful school teachers. They are paying union dues for causes they don’t believe in. A very low percentage would truly support the left-wing orientation of the NEA. Some have been brainwashed in a “go along to get along” environment. But a good number of wonderful teachers know deep down in their hearts that the NEA is not good for America. That is if you want to live in a civil society where limited government, private property, the free market economy and a Republican form of government survives.

At a recent open forum, I asked our new Lafayette superintendent what his plan was to get some 1,500 home schooled students back in the public schools. He offered no answer.

Wouldn’t it be nice if our schools were oriented back to old American values?

Hugh B. Pence

Lafayette

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